Project Manager (Cloud)

Job Title: Project Manager IV

Location: 601 S. Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28202

NOTE: Onsite in Charlotte for Hybrid model - 3 days a week. **Technical Delivery Manager - **Project/Program Mgr experience managing IT projects large in scope and complexity; **Experience with Agile delivery methodology JIRA, scrum etc; **In-depth Risk Management - identifying, mitigating and the delicate balance of when to escalate. **Terraform & Gitlab. ** Must have excellent communication skills both verbal and written, collaborative team player, and able to work in a matrixed environment across LOB s, positive attitude, team player, self-starter. **Critical thinking & problem-solving skills someone who will take ownership and drive things forward. **Fast learner with a curious mind and a sense of urgency and ability to multi-task. ** Provide location and best time to interview 2 interviews - 1 onsite interview - due to onsite interviews, if requested, provide candidate e-mail and phone number for visitor registration.

Job Description:

The Opportunity

Responsible for driving Ally s Cloud 2.0 hybrid cloud strategy. This role serves as a key technical and delivery SME as part of an Ally enterprise technology strategic initiative to migrate 175+ applications from current data center into our new facility in Ashburn, VA. As part of the migration, application teams will adopt a cloud-first mindset, onboarding to the enterprise DevSecOps pipeline (Gitlab) and utilizing Ally built Terraform modules for deployment of infrastructure.

This role is part of the App Enablement squad and will work with application teams across Ally business units (deposits, auto, Corp tech, enterprise data and analytics, security, etc.) to assess current state requirements, define migration approach, and assist application teams in onboarding to the private cloud standards.

The Work Itself:

Hands-on leadership with application teams and enterprise technology operations (ETO) automation squads to define infrastructure requirements and conduct gap assessments against existing Private Cloud capabilities

Drive migration planning and identify risk mitigants to alleviate impacts of migration issues

Assist in the buildout of infrastructure pipeline and train application teams on processes and transition of responsibilities

Ongoing refinement of app engagement processes to optimize app team and migration team efforts

Drive migration events and oversee pre/post migration validations

Initial triage of infra issues and partnership with app teams to implement remediations

The Skills You Bring:

Experience managing IT projects that are large in complexity, size, and scope. Experience with Jira and scrum agile delivery methodology

Self-starter and willingness to learn/grow on a variety of technologies to actively drive app migrations. Technical background/skillset to contribute hands-on analysis and facilitate technical discussions.

Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate without prescribed instructions on how to solve an issue.

Knowledge of Project Management Methodologies, tools and software development life cycles (SDLC).

Experience with Gitlab implementations and preferred experience with Terraform

Communicate effectively across multi-stakeholder groups developers, managers, senior leaders

Ability to deliver quality solutions to customers and develop process improvements where applicable.

Superior interpersonal skills and conflict resolution skills.

5+ years technical experience in Project Management / Delivery in an enterprise IT system environment.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other relevant field of study preferred